Average turnaround
for your order would be two (2) weeks from receipt of your order into our lab
back to your doorstep.
Price is $50 for transfer of your camcorder hard-drive contents to new formats. Pricing covers the first 5 hours of content, and includes optical disc media (DVD or Blu-ray). USB Flash-drives and external Hard Drives are extra. Example pricing - a 500GB hard-drive is $75, a 1TB hard-drive is $100, and a 2TB hard-drive is $150. If more than 5 hours are on your hard-drive, we will contact you with a custom quote. When additional charges are
applicable, we'll create a new shopping cart customized for the extras
associated with your order, and notify you when it is ready for your review and
secure payment.
Deliverables: your camcorder content reformatted to
your desire output. Choices below.
- One (1) DVD can hold up to two (2) hours of MPEG-2
video. We use discs manufactured by JVC (Taiyo Yuden) or Falcon, shelf
, life of 30+ years, and contains custom menu and disc labeling per customer
instruction.
- One (1) Blu-ray Disc can contain up to nine (9) hours
of standard definition video (MPEG-2), or up to 3 hours of high definition
video (H2.64 MPEG-4). The disc is a BD-R manufactured by either Verbatim
or Falcon, and has an advertised shelf life of over 70 years if stored
properly. The disc is set up for auto-play with chapter points for every 20
minutes of video content unless specified differently. The table of
contents has a motion icon for each video tape, and clicking on the icon takes
the viewer to the corresponding chapter marker within the video content on the
Blu-ray Disc. The one on-screen title, disc surfaces and case sleeves are
labeled per your instruction.
- USB Flash-drive with new data files. We offer
32GB flash drives that can hold up to 32 hours of mp4 or wmv movie files, or up
to 3 hours of MOV or AVI file types.
- External hard-drive containing movie data files,
typically used for conversion to MOV or AVI file types. The external
hard-drives are priced at $80 for a 1TB unit and $150 for a 2TB model.
The reformatting process:
1. Inventory the items, review customer directions; perform minor video editing that is standard on all orders - removal
of blank video scenes, removal of copyright television or commercial movies,
transfer only home movies' content;
2. Application of fee-based optional video editing or digital
noise reduction as ordered;
3. Transcoding (reformatting) the digital content into
MPEG-2 movie files (standard definition) or H.264 MPEG-4 movie files (high
definition), and placing these onto selected output media: Blu-ray Disc,
DVD, USB Flash-drive, or external hard-drive. For discs, we combine
content from multiple files onto as few discs as possible, giving each file its
own chapter on the disc. The table of contents for the Blu-ray Disc has
an on-screen title, along with motion icons for each movie file and
corresponding chapter markers within the disc's video content. If conversion is
to new movie file types, we will label the files with customer name, order
number, and previous file name. All labeling on for discs and movie
files can be customized to customer specification.
4. Original customer content and new formats are returned
to the customer.
5. We save disc images of the DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, or
copies of new movie files, in our storage network for 90 days, to help in the
event of loss, or need for extra copies, or need for additional editing.
